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  • Boulder

    by Eva Baltasar ...
    Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no – and so finds ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Permafrost

    by Eva Baltasar ...
    Translated by Julia Sanches ...
    Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover, a no-hope employee, and a some-time suicidal student of her own dislocated self. As she tries to break out of the roles set for her by a controlling, overprotective mother, a relentlessly positive sister, and a society which imposes a gut-wrenching pressure to conform, she contemplates the so-called will to live when that life is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Three Wild Bodies

    Permafrost; Boulder; Mammoth

    by Eva Baltasar ...
    Translated by Julia Sanches ...
    A ferocious, saber-toothed triptych of novels on sex, queerness, and womanhood—finally in conversation with one another in a single revelatory volume.Finally united in a single volume, these powerhouse novellas from the Catalan superstar Eva Baltasar tell three wild, delirious tales of queer women blazing new trails through sexuality, motherhood, and friendship. In prose that has the directness of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Stone and Silicon

    Theatrical monologue

    by Baltasar ...
    "My house is not quiet, I am not loud ;But for us God fashioned our fate together.I am the swifter, at times the stronger,My house more enduring, longer to last.At times I rest; my dwelling still runs;Within it I lodge as long as I live.Should we two be severed, my death is sure"(Riddle n° 85 from the Exeter Book)The monologue/soliloquy is, essentially, about self-consciousness, self-awareness. ... Read more

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  • eso-exoteria, allegorical writings and drawings

    by Baltasar ...
    …what I am about to dance, is a roundabout dance, around myself.A dervish-like dance, a circular dance, a silent dance ... that disorients me, unbalances me, and sets before me, while I continue to see an image of myself, the truth on my inability to know the Truth. My knowledge blurred by ignorance, by prejudice, and by lies……a wonderful condition that is difficult to grasp if you insist on ... Read more

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  • The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    by Baltasar Gracián ...
    Baroque philosopher Balthasar Gracian’s The Art of Worldly Wisdom consists of three hundred maxims spanning a wide range of topics relating to all aspects of life and human behavior. Gracian was a Spanish Jesuit Priest whose sermons and writings were disapproved of by his superiors. Admired by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche for the depth and subtlety of his observations, Gracian’s collection of pithy ... Read more

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  • The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    A Pocket Oracle

    by Baltasar Gracian ...
    Translated by Christopher Maurer ...
    A centuries-old rediscovered masterpiece of 300 adages on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest, as astonishingly appropriate today as it was in seventeenth-century Spain“The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a book of strategies for knowing, judging, and acting: for making one’s way in the world and achieving distinction and perfection. . . . Like all aphorisms, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • physics and metaphysics

    the grotesque soliloquy of an amoral politician

    by Baltasar ...
    ...The bathroom, .... you know, the loo, yes, that’s it... The more I seclude myself in a hole I’m familiar with, the better. The loo is the only environment in which I can feel relatively serene.Ah, ... fear, terror, ... the mere memory of that awful fact frightens me to death.I make sure, in the loo, ... that there is always enough toilet paper left,for I use it to wipe the sweat off my face as ... Read more

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  • The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    by Baltasar Gracian ...
    Translated by Joseph Jacobs ...
    This perenially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, the teachings are strikingly modern in tone and address universal concerns such as friendship, morality, effective leadership, and how to manage one's emotions. The Art ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • EMPTY QUARTER, the heredity of the sand (with theatrical booklet)

    by Baltasar ...
    …this place has been like this for millions of years... I'm walking on sand and rock's grains that have certainly seen the steps of people lived here thousands of years ago... without leaving traces?...“EMPTY QUARTER”, is the name given to a desert of the Arabic peninsula, the extent of which corresponds roughly to one quarter of the entire peninsula. A zone in which, so it seems, at least up to ... Read more

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  • Short tale about Ruha’s Egg

    by Baltasar ...
    Particularly prominent figure, definitely aiming at rethinking and evolving everything that is considered vital essence in conceptual relationships between culture and communication. For this reason, his work explores the idea in parallel terms of analysis and perception. His plays are highly original. The author is able to emphasize the component immanent / transcendent human being.The Critics ... Read more

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  • Learning Technologies and Systems

    24th International Conference on Web-based Learning, lCWL 2025 and 10th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2025, Hongkong, China, November 30 – December 3, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, António José Mendes, Marco Temperini, Zuzana Kubincová, Marc Spaniol, Guandong Xu, Elvira Popescu, Tianyong Hao, Xiangmeng Wang, Shuning He ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 24th International Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL 2025 and 10th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2025, held in Hongkong, China, during November 30 – December 3, 2025.The 36 full papers were included in this were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. They focus on AI Agent ... Read more

    $58.49 USD